Nevada’s program, called Nevada Health Link, is scheduled to go into operation by 2020.
The Affordable Care Act gave states a choice between joining the federal health insurance exchange or administering their own versions, called state-based marketplaces (SBMs). Nevada, along with five other states, had been operating a blended form that placed an independently managed state-based marketplace on the federal tech platform. Read More

Air ambulance rides are literal lifesavers. But how much should they cost?
In the ongoing, crowdsourced “Bill of the Month” investigation, Kaiser Health News and NPR received more than a dozen bills from people around the country on the hook for medevac helicopter rides that ranged from $28,000 to $97,000.
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States serve as “laboratories of democracy,” as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously said. And states are also labs for health policy, launching all kinds of experiments lately to temper spending on pharmaceuticals. Read More

A proposed rule from the White House would make it harder for legal immigrants to get green cards if they have received certain kinds of public assistance — including Medicaid, food stamps and housing subsidies. Green cards allow them to live and work permanently in the United States. Read More

Gilead Sciences Inc. will sell cheaper versions of its blockbuster hepatitis C drugs, the original versions of which sparked widespread debate about U.S. pharmaceutical costs when they were introduced at a price of more than $1,000 a pill. Read More